FIST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Moses Ben Joshua, David Bordwell, Bertolt Brecht
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Leaves you with a lot of questions. How to follow it and the type of please it gives us are different from classical cinema. L"avventura: a girl is lost and never found - whaaaaaat. A doesn"t need to lead to b to lead to c, etc. Less respect for temporal and spatial continuity. In classical cinema, characters have desire and it drives them to do something (ex: money), but not in art cinema. Art cinema narrative is motivated by realism and authorial expressivity. Realism: real location, real problem, realistic psychologically complex characters. Authorial expressivity: directors stamp their names to the films. Art cinema emerges out of artistic tradition called modernism. Realism: let"s try to capture the world as it is to art is true. art is truth! Romanticism: similar but it has more to do with value of emotions. Art has a true value and can affect positive social change. Modernism: crisis of faith in art"s true value.
